Protests in China over President Xi Jinping’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 measures have intensified – expanding from Beijing and the far western Xinjiang region to several other major cities, including Wuhan, Shanghai, and the eastern city of Nanjing, according to video and photos circulating on social media. The weekend protests followed Friday demonstrations in Urumqi, the capitol of Xinjiang, after a deadly fire […]
The Central Intelligence Agency is seeking to tap Russians as potential spies who are “disgusted” with Putin’s war in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported this week, as part of a new push to bolster its ranks of Russian assets. The CIA’s deputy director of intelligence David Marlowe, who has been in the post since June 2021, said […]
Spain is currently governed by a coalition of socialists and far left extremists
The western world has been given a rare, intimate look inside the confines of a Chinese Covid-19 concentration camp, after Financial Times Shanghai correspondent Thomas Hale was ensnared by the President Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid regime. It’s not that Hale had tested positive. Merely being designated as a “close contact” was enough to sentence him to 10 days […]
Five minutes straight from the hip, only added some slides in post-production! I think this may be my best SHORT Covid19 presentation, as it compresses all the jewels down to the essence. Recorded at the Fatima, Portugal International Congress on Pandemic and Health Management (Oct 2022).
To say the working conditions at Apple’s largest iPhone plant probably aren’t incredible to begin with would likely be an understatement. But then when you lock down most of your 200,000 workers because of a Covid outbreak, those conditions likely get much worse. This is what seemed to be the case this week, with Bloomberg reporting […]
But wait, I thought he was British?
Using mass shooting events in the US as an excuse, PM Justin Trudeau has been tinkering with the idea of banning or “freezing” firearms in Canada since this summer and now it appears that he is ready to take unilateral measures. Trudeau is placing a nationwide freeze on the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns, effective immediately […]
Despite serving as prime minister of the United Kingdom for a mere 45 days before resigning in humiliation, Liz Truss can now tap a lifetime allowance of up to $129,000 a year. The “Public Duty Costs Allowance,” which is available to all former prime ministers, isn’t a pension. Rather, it’s described by the British government […]
